Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reaction. Ike insisted that his "profile" was neutral, but it hit the Goldwater camp like a hurricane. Everything, from backing the United Nations to supporting civil rights and domestic social legislation to the crack about avoiding "impulsiveness" in foreign affairs, struck at least obliquely at Goldwater. Worse, after the 1960 presidential election, Goldwater had scoffed at the same party platform that Ike now praised so highly by saying, "We lost on it." To make sure no one missed the point, Thayer's Tribune planted a column by Pundit Roscoe Drummond squarely alongside the Eisenhower text. Said Drummond...
...both domestic and foreign issues, Cranston and Salinger take exactly the same stands. Well, almost. Salinger has come out in favor of saving the trumpeter swan, while Cranston remains neutral on that one. In any event, their contest boils down to a major power struggle between Governor Pat Brown, who is backing Cranston, and State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, who is for Salinger...
This suits Cranston just fine, and he delights in calling Salinger a "front man" for Unruh. Replies Pierre lamely: "To my knowledge, Speaker Unruh is neutral." Retorts Cranston: "Unruh has never drawn a neutral breath in his life. He'd take violent sides in a Little League game if he thought he could own the winner...
From the first heartthrob, it's been a mess, but this week the issue will be settled. The Netherlands' Princess Irene, 24, will marry her Spaniard, Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma, 34, "in Rome on neutral territory, thus avoiding any accusations of political intention." Irene's mother, Queen Juliana, nonetheless announced that neither she nor any of the royal family would attend the wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church...
...Joke. The argument makes little sense to most Protestants, who generally regard birth-control methods as morally neutral and the motive for using them all-important. Many lay Catholics also find the church's reasoning fallacious, and Pollster Lou Harris reported in February that by a 3-to-2 margin a sampling of U.S. Catholics wanted to see a change in their church's attitude toward birth control. Rhythm, they argue, is unreliable and moreover, its complement of thermometers, charts and calendar watching makes any theological defense of the method as "natural" seem like a bad semantic joke...